
Keys to Winning Bridge
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(1) A winning player has rock-solid fundamentals. The best part of an expert's game is that he never -- never -- boots a simple situation. Give him a basic bidding problem or a textbook exercise in dummy play and he will get it right. If you never make errors in basic technique, you will have an edge over 90% of your competitors.
(2) A winning player keeps avoidable errors to a minimum. Bridge is a game of mistakes. Nobody has ever played a perfect session, nobody ever will. Everybody makes mistakes. Winners make the fewest. This quote is attributed to Bob Hamman: "All players are poor players, including some good players." Hamman wasn't being opprobrious; he was just acknowledging that we all have shortcomings.
Many types of errors are common: mishandling suit combinations, forgetting to count, missing inferences. Maybe the majority of errors stem from lapses in concentration.
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PART ONE: DUMMY PLAY
At trick one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 36
More technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Using the clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
PART TWO: DEFENSE
Good and bad rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Basic approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Opening leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Partnership defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Using the clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
PART THREE: BIDDING
Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Artificialities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
PART FOUR: WINNING ATTITUDES
Winning attitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Maintaining Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
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